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Saint of the Day
St. Patrick: Saint of the Day for Monday, March 17, 2025
St. Patrick of Ireland is one of the world's most popular saints. He was born in Roman Britain and when he was fourteen or so, he was captured by Irish pirates during a raiding party and taken to Ireland as a slave to herd and tend sheep. At the time, Ireland was a...
St. Abban: Saint of the Day for Sunday, March 16, 2025
Abbot and Irish missionary. An Irish prince, Abban was the son of King Cormac of Leinster. He is listed as the nephew of St. Ibar. Abban founded many churches in the old district of Ui Cennselaigh, in modern County Wexford and Ferns. His main monastery is...
St. Matilda: Saint of the Day for Friday, March 14, 2025
Matilda was the daughter of Count Dietrich of Westphalia and Reinhild of Denmark. She was also known as Mechtildis and Maud. She was raised by her grandmother, the Abbess of Eufurt convent. Matilda married Henry the Fowler, son of Duke Otto of Saxony, in the year 909....
Bl. Agnello of Pisa: Saint of the Day for Thursday, March 13, 2025
The founder of the English Franciscan province, Blessed Agnello, was admitted into the Order by St. Francis himself on the occasion of his sojourn in Pisa. He was sent to the Friary in Paris, of which he became the guardian, and in 1224, St. Francis appointed him to...
St. Fina: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, March 12, 2025
St. Fina or Seraphina, Virgin A.D. 1253 The old town of San Geminiano in Tuscany treasures with special veneration the memory of Santa Fina, a young girl whose claim to be recognized as a saint lay in the perfect resignation with which she accepted bodily suffering....
St. Constantine: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Constantine was king of Cornwall. Unreliable tradition has him married to the daughter of the king of Brittany who on her death ceded his throne to his son and became a monk at St. Mochuda monastery at Rahan, Ireland. He performed menial tasks at the monastery, then...
St. John Ogilvie: Saint of the Day for Monday, March 10, 2025
Born in 1579, John Ogilvie belonged to Scottish nobility. Raised a Calvinist, he was educated on the continent. Exposed to the religious controversies of his day and impressed with the faith of the martyrs, he decided to become a Catholic. In 1596, at age seventeen he...
St. Frances of Rome: Saint of the Day for Sunday, March 09, 2025
Frances was born in the city of Rome in 1384 to a wealthy, noble family. From her mother she inherited a quiet manner and a pious devotion to God. From her father, however, she inherited a strong will. She decided at eleven that she knew what God wanted for her -- she...
St. John of God: Saint of the Day for Saturday, March 08, 2025
From the time he was eight to the day he died, John followed every impulse of his heart. The challenge for him was to rush to follow the promptings of the Holy Spirit gave him, not his own human temptations. But unlike many who act impulsively, when John made a...
Sts. Perpetua and Felicity: Saint of the Day for Friday, March 07, 2025
Sts. Perpetua and Felicity were Christian martyrs who lived during the early persecution of the Church in Africa by the Emperor Severus. With details concerning the lives of many early martyrs unclear and often based on legend, we are fortunate to have the actual...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Monday, March 17, 2025
Reading 1, Daniel 9:4-10 4 I pleaded with Yahweh my God and made this confession: 'O my Lord, God great and to be feared, you keep the covenant and show faithful love towards those who love you and who observe your commandments:5 we have sinned, we have done wrong, we...
Daily Readings for Sunday, March 16, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 15:5-12, 17-18 5 Then taking him outside, he said, 'Look up at the sky and count the stars if you can. Just so will your descendants be,' he told him.6 Abram put his faith in Yahweh and this was reckoned to him as uprightness.7 He then said to him,...
Daily Readings for Saturday, March 15, 2025
Reading 1, Deuteronomy 26:16-19 16 'Yahweh your God commands you today to observe these laws and customs; you must keep and observe them with all your heart and with all your soul.17 'Today you have obtained this declaration from Yahweh: that he will be your God, but...
Daily Readings for Friday, March 14, 2025
Reading 1, Ezekiel 18:21-28 21 'If the wicked, however, renounces all the sins he has committed, respects my laws and is law-abiding and upright, he will most certainly live; he will not die.22 None of the crimes he committed will be remembered against him from then...
Daily Readings for Thursday, March 13, 2025
Reading 1, Esther C:12, 14-16, 23-25 14 Queen Esther, seized with mortal anguish, had recourse to the LORD. She lay prostrate upon the ground, together with her handmaids, from morning until evening, and said: "God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, blessed...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Reading 1, Jonah 3:1-10 1 The word of Yahweh was addressed to Jonah a second time.2 'Up!' he said, 'Go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach to it as I shall tell you.'3 Jonah set out and went to Nineveh in obedience to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was a city...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Reading 1, Isaiah 55:10-11 10 For, as the rain and the snow come down from the sky and do not return before having watered the earth, fertilising it and making it germinate to provide seed for the sower and food to eat,11 so it is with the word that goes from my...
Daily Readings for Monday, March 10, 2025
Reading 1, Leviticus 19:1-2, 11-18 11 "You will not steal, nor deal deceitfully or fraudulently with your fellow-citizen.12 You will not swear by my name with intent to deceive and thus profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.13 You will not exploit or rob your...
Daily Readings for Sunday, March 09, 2025
Reading 1, Deuteronomy 26:4-10 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:2 'Speak to the whole community of Israelites and say: "Be holy, for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.4 'The priest will then take the basket from your hand and lay it before the altar of Yahweh your God.5 In...
Daily Readings for Saturday, March 08, 2025
Reading 1, Isaiah 58:9-14 9 Then you will cry for help and Yahweh will answer; you will call and he will say, 'I am here.' If you do away with the yoke, the clenched fist and malicious words,10 if you deprive yourself for the hungry and satisfy the needs of the...